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   XPost: can.politics   
   From: stgeorge@england.eng   
      
   On 17/03/2015 07:45 pm, Byker wrote:   
   > Remember that WHITE Irish were enslaved by the British and were actually   
   > cheaper to purchase than black slaves at the time. The Irish slave trade   
   > began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World.   
   > His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent   
   > overseas   
   > and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the mid 1600s, the   
   > Irish   
   > were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of   
   > the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves.   
   >   
   > Ireland quickly became the biggest source of human livestock for English   
   > merchants. The majority of the early slaves to the New World were actually   
   > white.   
   >   
   >  From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and   
   > another   
   > 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland’s population fell from about 1,500,000   
   > to 600,000 in a single decade. Families were ripped apart as the British   
   > did   
   > not allow Irish dads to take their wives and children with them across the   
   > Atlantic. This led to a helpless population of homeless women and children.   
   > Britain’s solution was to auction them off as well.   
   >   
   > During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14   
   > were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies,   
   > Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and   
   > children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia. Another 30,000 Irish men and   
   > women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder. In 1656,   
   > Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold as   
   > slaves to English settlers.   
      
   Well, they will stand out, all the other slaves will be black...   
      
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